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4LIFE ministry, the official ProLife ministry of our diocese is organizing many events to respond to the invitation of "Evangelium Vitae" for "a general mobilization of consciences and a united ethical effort to activate a great campaign in support of life.”

Flashback to April, 2012… My phone buzzes with a text from a church friend, and I swipe the screen to see the words that started it all: “World Youth Day 2013’s gonna be in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and we’re gonna be there!”

Extraordinary and novel marriage proposals have been around for years. But with the onset of social media such as YouTube and Facebook, and their inevitable and ubiquitous presence in today's popularity-crazed society, it has meant that the most sophisticated attempts can be shared around the world, with some videos earning up to 30 million views.

The Metro-Detroit area has been the largest hub for Chaldean Catholics in America. The Chaldean Church, also called The Church of the East, can be seen as the liturgical and historical “older brother” of our own SyroMalabar Church. Before arriving in India, St. Thomas the Apostle evangelized the people of modern day Iraq. Despite constant persecution in the Middle East, and amid the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq, the Chaldeans still thrive. Knowing that the Chaldeans, many of whom still speak and worship in Aramaic (the language of Jesus and the Apostles), have ten churches in the Metro-Detroit area, I felt a call to reach out to them and encounter what our older brothers in faith had to offer.